The latest documentary from Rodney Ascher ('Room 237,' 'A Glitch in the Matrix') revisits the harrowing life of locked-in ...

Books like current New York Times BestsellerThe Hate U Give, and the forthcoming Ghost Boys, How It Went Down and Dear Martin are just a few of the stories taking on topics like the Black Lives ...

Like Alexandre O. Philippe, Rodney Ascher is a director who pushes the interpretive limits of what a documentary can do, ...

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes was published in 2018 and is set in the USA. It tells the story of Jerome, a young, unarmed Black boy who is shot dead by a white police officer. The plot then ...

Documentarian Rodney Ascher depicts Martin Pistorius' locked-in syndrome journey in the harrowing, yet life-affirming 'Ghost ...

The extremely clearheaded way Pistorius describes an experience that, thankfully, almost none of us will ever go through is what lends so much power to Ghost Boy’s narrative. The author has a ...

Anyone alarmed by that proposition will probably want to give Ascher’s latest film a wide berth, since it tells the story of Martin Pistorius, South African author of the 2011 memoir Ghost Boy ...

South African author of the 2011 memoir Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body. Narrated entirely by text-to-voice software — a device that Ascher sets up ...